Contents -- Preface -- Part I: Integration and Interdependence -- Chapter 1 After Smooth Handover, Now the Hard Part WANG Gungwu and John WONG -- Things Suddenly Fell Apart -- How a Robust Economy Tumbles -- The Peril of Just Another Chinese City -- Political Integration After Economic Symbiosis? -- "One Country" Versus "Two Systems" -- Learning to Live with China -- Appendix -- Chapter 2 CEPA: A Gift from Beijing? John WONG -- Modest Impact on Hong Kong's Manufacturing Sector -- Services Expected to Benefit More -- Towards One "Single Market" -- Chapter 3 Hong Kong's CEPA with Mainland China ZHANG Yang and John WONG -- Implementation of CEPA - Trade in Goods and Services -- Overall Impact of CEPA on Hong Kong -- Deepening Economic Interaction with the Mainland -- Chapter 4 Economic Recovery: A Bumpy Road Ahead ZHANG Yang and Sarah Y. TONG -- Main Attributes of the Economic Slowdown -- Government's Counter-Cyclical Measures and their Impact -- Economic Integration with Mainland China -- Chapter 5 Broadening Its Economic Linkages with Guangdong YU Hong -- The New Framework Agreement and the Hong Kong Chapter of the 12th FYP: Beijing's New Initiative for Hong Kong/Guangdong Cooperation -- Further Integration of Hong Kong with the PRD -- Part II: Governance Crises and Social Discontent -- Chapter 6 Ending the Governance Crisis? ZHENG Yongnian and TOK Sow Keat -- Tung Chee-hwa's Passing Legacy -- Tsang as Tung's Successor -- Hong Kong's Governance Crisis -- Unresolved Challenges for Beijing -- Chapter 7 The Politics of Chief Executive Elections from Tung to Tsang LEE Ngok and Thomas CHAN Man-hung -- The Election -- Politics after CE Election -- Hong Kong and the 11th Five-Year Programme -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8 State, Market Force and National Identity Bill Chou -- Building National Identities in Post-Colonial Hong Kong -- Market Forces in Action.

Conclusion -- Chapter 9 Identity Politics KWONG Kin Ming and YU Hong -- Historical Roots of the Sense of Local Identity -- Formation of local identity (1960S-1980S): "Hong Kong Dream" discourse -- Rejoining the nation: psychological distance being institutionalised -- After handover: SAR government's efforts on national education and resistance -- Hostility to Mainlanders -- Tipping Point in 2012: Increased Influx of Mainlanders -- Influx of mainland mothers -- Influx of mainland visitors -- Key Feature of the Local Identity: "Market Mentality"? -- Outlook of China-Hong Kong Relations -- Chapter 10 The Road to a Statutory Minimum Wage: Lessons and Implications YEW Chiew Ping -- Politics and Debates -- Income Disparity and Public Opinion -- Social and Political Ramifications -- Chapter 11 Is Hong Kong Dying? KWONG Kin-ming and YEW Chiew Ping -- A Lame Duck Government -- Policy U-Turns: Origins, Process and Outcomes -- Social Dynamics and Pressures -- Political Orientations: Shifting Left or Right? -- 2012 and Beyond: Challenges Ahead -- Part III: Electoral Reforms and Democratisation -- Chapter 12 Democratisation in Hong Kong: A Crisis Brewing for Beijing? ZHENG Yongnian and TOK Sow Keat -- Bureaucratic Complacencies and Beijing's Miscalculations -- Escalation and Radicalisation -- Beijing's Growing Worry -- Learning to Manage Hong Kong? -- Continued Impasse in Beijing-HKSAR Relations -- Appendix -- Chronology of Events (February - April 2004) -- Chapter 13 Political Reform and Dilemma YEW Chiew Ping -- Pros and Cons of the 2012 Reform Package -- Functional Constituencies and their Role in the LegCo -- The Governance of Hong Kong and Social Discontent -- Hong Kong's Political Dilemma -- Chapter 14 The 2011 District Council Election: A New Political Landscape? YEW Chiew Ping -- Changing Voters' Demographics.

Factors that Undermined Support for Pan-Democrats -- Implications for the Chief Executive and LegCo Elections20 -- New Political Landscape? -- Chapter 15 The 2012 Chief Executive Election and After YEW Chiew Ping -- Beijing's Interference -- What Now? Winners and Losers -- Chapter 16 The 2012 Legislative Council Election: New Political Landscape and Governance Challenges YEW Chiew Ping and KWONG Kin-ming -- Explaining Results -- Shifting Political Landscape -- Political Gridlock and Governance Crisis -- Appendix -- Index.